There I am, in Enmore, speaking to three fencing contractors who had unwittingly dug a mortar out of someones garden while trying to fix a fence, and three policemen who were the first on the scene. As the Army's representative in the field of Explosive Ordnance Disposal on this particular occasion, I was seen as the subject matter expert.
I shook everyones hand, I was lead to the mortar, I identified it, I assessed that it was safe to move and I took some photos of it. I returned to my vehicle to collect a cloth from the boot that I could drape over the mortar so the neighbours wouldn't see an army guy carrying a bomb around the street. I retrieved the cloth and closed the boot, and the very instant the boot closed I realised I had put the keys down inside it, and they were now locked in. The car itself was already locked, so I couldn't just push the 'boot release' button.
The three policemen and I fiddled around with coat-hangers and aerials, trying to pull door handles or press the 'open the boot' button for two hours before the NRMA guy came and opened the door in 20 seconds flat, it looked frustratingly easy with the right tools.
The lady who owned the house I had been called out to just happened to have a digital camera (oh yay)o= So keep an eye on YouTube, one day soon you might just see a video of three police-men and an Army guy trying to break into a car with blue and red lights on the top.
Theoretically wrong
14 years ago
2 comments:
Ha! I would like to see that clip.
And I would have thought the cops knew how to break into a car if anyone did.
In emergencies... if say there is a kid in the car, they tend to just break the window.
There was no real need to do that, and I didn't really feel like paying for it.
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